The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-01-06
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has sailed for home.
p. T. BARNuM il building three toboggan
slides at Bridgeport.
A CoNNECT1CUrTER has invented mast
that bends to the gale.
The South Carolina General Assembly
has adjourned sine die.
AN Orlando (Fls.) warehouse holds 200
barrels Of orange wine.
A TRIPLE Of S25, $4,000 is still needed to
finish the Panama canal.
A BOSTON dentist has had to pay $50 for
pulling the wrong tooth.
GENERAL MILES Is considered the hand
soonest officer Of the army.
SINCE the Franco German war lis statues
have been erected in France.
Sic. MARcANToNIo CANINI, Of Venice, can
speak ninety-three languages.
The first crematory in the South Is
about to be constructed near San Antonio,
Tex.
THE man who writes Xmas for Christ
mas will probably refer to next Fourth Of
July as 47's7.
Or the 4s 600 votes cast in the recent elec-
tion in Washington Territory, 1900 were
cast by women.
CALIFORNIA claims the largest squash Of
the season. It was raised at Lompoe, and
weighs 251 pounds.
TENNEssEE's peanut crop this year is
worth s700, 900. The average yield per acre
is forty-two bushels.
NEARLY 10000 doctors have been gradu-
ated from the various medical colleges dur
ing the last ten years.
A HELENA, IN. T.) man offers to bet one
hundred dollars that he can live for three
months on hay and oats.
THE largest tree in California is in Tulare
County, and is $50 feet high, and the trunk
13S feet in circumference.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, If he lives until next
.darch, will be ninety years old. The old
est ruler Of modern times.
Mr.. CHARLES STEWART PARNELL is said to
receive more letters and to answer less
than any other man in Europe.
The British Medical Journal reports case
of poisoning from the accidental swallow
ing Of piece Of an aniline pencil.
A WOMAN who recently died in New York
was found, upon post-mortem examination,
to have a needle imbedded in her heart.
WITHOUT a miss lusrksman broke 105
glass balls at twenty-five yards rise, on q
wager, at Keyport, N. j., o few days ago.
TELEPHoNING between New York and
Philadelphia is now as easy as it was be-
tween points block apart few months
ago.
ROBERT T. LINCOLN announces that his
political life is ended, and that the law
will hereafter receive his undivided atten-
ton.
The Harrison Memorial Association, of
Ohio, will ask the legislature to sppro-
pirate $4,000 for statue Of Old Tppe-
canoe.
''TnE peace Of Europe" says an ex-
change, ''costs about 81, 900, 900 900 q year"
And even at that price Europe gets an un-
satisfactory article.
wives by the accidental discharge" Of his
revolver. The third time he was arrested
and held for murder.
THE largest copper plates ever rolled in
Pittsburgh, Pa, were turned out q few
days ago. They were circular in form, and
measured 176 inches in diameter.
AT Martinsville, Ind, there was born to
the wife of Edward Bishop girl baby
weighing two pounds. The child is per-
fectly formed, is hale and hearty.
THERE are in the whole United States
about thirty or forty locomotive works,
turning out about 5000 locomotives year,
and employing about 1900 hands.
Twill astonish many people to learn that
a French duel has resulted fatally
Neitner OF the contestants shot tne otner,
self.
80 ohiero th,t tntopmo. - .. n;o on. 'por
hna,,, ~ ,,,,, 80, 80. .S iae
,,ona;rahIe s,,a,n,, than 20 NV a,a.haa a.
line.
AN Australian has invented an e,ec-
trical machine-pun, which he claims is
capable of firing 100 rounds every few acc.
onds from any position and in anv di ec
tion.
NEW York CRY has a daily newspaper
printed in the Hebrew language and in
Hebrew characters, and called the Daily
Gazette. There are only two like it in the
world.
MIDDLE Tennessee is to organize an anti
horse thief association and offer reward
OF s9oo for every animal stolen. There are
than at anv time since the ~ war ' '''"
Srcy !. ~. ro,;a ,,,o,,.,, =, ,,,,..;.x
IN Iondon nart;c,iariv in The eat th.t !,
ia stated on good authority that az o00 ner.
sons are now being added YEARLY to a non.
nlation already numbering 100000.
PHILADELPHIA teachers are SO poorly
paid that it must have been one Of their
representatives who responded to the
toast: ''Long Live our School Teachers r
with the heartfelt reply: "What onl"
IT is said that in Campbell County, Oak
An intelligent pointer dog run by the indig
nant citizens on an independent ticket
lacked only three votes OF being elected